Smith, Patti | YEAR OF THE MONKEY

En memoar som väver samman drömmar och verklighet under ett år av ensamhet och reflektion, med insikter om livets förändringar.

• En personlig skildring av Patti Smith.

• Utforskar konst, historia och mänskliga upplevelser.

• Utgiven som förlagsband.

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Bindning: Förlagsband

Bokförlag: Random House US
ISBN: 9780525657682

Språk: Engelska
Utgivningsdatum: 2019-09-24

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From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year. Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland with no design, yet heeding signs--including a talking sign that looms above her, prodding and sparring like the Cheshire Cat. In February, a surreal lunar year begins, bringing with it unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow. In a stranger's words, "Anything is possible: after all, it's the Year of the Monkey." For Smith--inveterately curious, always exploring, tracking thoughts, writing--the year evolves as one of reckoning with the changes in life's gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America. Smith melds the western landscape with her own dreamscape. Taking us from California to the Arizona desert; to a Kentucky farm as the amanuensis of a friend in crisis; to the hospital room of a valued mentor; and by turns to remembered and imagined places, this haunting memoir blends fact and fiction with poetic mastery. The unexpected happens; grief and disillusionment set in. But as Smith heads toward a new decade in her own life, she offers this balm to the reader: her wisdom, wit, gimlet eye, and above all, a rugged hope for a better world. Riveting, elegant, often humorous, illustrated by Smith's signature Polaroids, Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times.

Year of the Monkey av Patti Smith hittar du under Biografi och prosa (ej fiktion) inom Konst | Konsthistoria | Konstvetenskap | Arkitektur i huvudkategorin Humaniora.

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